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This paper examines the conceptual and organizational development of feminist activism in China since the Fourth UN Conference on Women in 1995. Centering on feminists activism on domestic violence, the author presents a critical analysis of the relationships between women NGOs, the All-China Women’s Federation, and the Chinese state in the context of global feminisms and global capitalism. Entangled with a patriarchal state characterized by an entrenched bureaucracy, a male-centered intellectual world clearly leaning in service of the state, as well as a capitalist economy legitimizing dispossession and displacement, Chinese feminists have forged feminist transformation in significant yet constrained ways.